Report: Half of all EU citizens could be generating their own electricity by 2050

Madeleine Cuff
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New report from European Renewable Energies Federation suggests 264 million 'energy citizens' will be living in the EU by 2050

By 2050 half of all EU citizens could be actively participating in the energy market by generating, storing or selling their own electricity, according to a major new report released this week by the European...

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